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Author Ballenger, Jesse F

Title Self, senility, and Alzheimer's disease in modern America : a history / Jesse F. Ballenger
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 236 pages)
Contents The stereotype of senility in late-nineteenth-century America -- Beyond the characteristic plaques and tangles -- From senility to successful aging -- The renaissance of pathology -- The health politics of anguish -- The preservation of selfhood in the culture of dementia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-229) and index
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Subject Alzheimer's disease -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Health attitudes.
Self-perception.
Alzheimer Disease -- history
Attitude to Health
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Self Concept
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Alzheimer's & Dementia.
Self-perception
Health attitudes
Alzheimer's disease
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780801888885
0801888883
9780801882760
0801882761